What's in your vegetable garden?

[ClifSpliffy]

it's time to plant. maybe it'll be a year where we're still picking the last peppers or frying green tomatoes when they 'roll the bballs out' in the autumn. I sure hope so. cukes, tomatoes, peppers, onions, and herbs (lol) of all varieties for us. this will be year three of breeding a yellow campari tomatoe. mixed results so far.
wut u got?

 

[The Shot]

it's time to plant. maybe it'll be a year where we're still picking the last peppers or frying green tomatoes when they 'roll the bballs out' in the autumn. I sure hope so. cukes, tomatoes, peppers, onions, and herbs (lol) of all varieties for us. this will be year three of breeding a yellow campari tomatoe. mixed results so far.
wut u got?

Acapulco gold...

And chives, basil, tomatoes, jalapeños, lavendar, cilantro.

 

[HawkHusky]

dead bodies

 

[Zanzman]

Weeds

 

[Walker11]

I turned the vast majority of my growing space into perennial gardens but I do have a tomato variety called Lucid Gem that look amazing and which I started from seed and have been trying to baby. 898 squash too - a fist sized butternut that is supposed to be super sweet and comes from Dan Barber's seed company. Some chard and purple kale for greens. Got 2 really nice Asian pear trees from Planters Choice Saturday and planted about 6 asparagus crowns to harvest in like 3 years.

 

[Deepster]

A few different lettuces, jalapeños, Thai chilis, mole peppers, salsa peppers, long red cayennes. Basil, oregano, thyme, dill, rosemary, cilantro and some pole beans so far.

 

[cohenzone]

Capital letters.

 

[Kajik]

5dz heirloom tomato,cukes,pole bean,peppers,2dz asst tomatoes,early girls etc,Panama red in there somewhere

 

[ColchVEGAS]

8 tomato varieties
A couple different jalapeños
Cayennes
Cherry peppers
Cubanelles
Bell peppers
4 season lettuce
Spinach
A few different beet varieties
Eggplant
Squash
Onions
Chives
Basil

 

[Robertelamin]

5 Tomato plants, 5 pepper plants, one eggplant and one basil. From seed, 2 varieties of cucumber, green beans, carrots, corn, radishes and watermelon. Corn is a pretty dumb thing for me to plant since the yield is pathetic for the amount of room they take up but I like the way they look.

@ColchVEGAS If you didn’t already know, chives are perennial so I hope you put them where you don’t mind them returning every spring.

 

[ColchVEGAS]

@Robertelamin this is year 3 with this particular chive plant

 

[storrsroars]

At the moment, about 2.5 million silver maple seed pods. I've already tossed 15 lawn bags of the things just from my driveway and patio. Usually I'd have all that cleaned up and planting this weekend, but this year seemed like there were 3-4x as many of the things as usual.

But did get in three tomato plants and some basil and parsley in a small side garden on the full sun side of house.

 

[HuskyHawk]

At the moment, about 2.5 million silver maple seed pods. I've already tossed 15 lawn bags of the things just from my driveway and patio. Usually I'd have all that cleaned up and planting this weekend, but this year seemed like there were 3-4x as many of the things as usual.

But did get in three tomato plants and some basil and parsley in a small side garden on the full sun side of house.

I don’t even try to grow anything. Too many critters. But if I had a garden it would be buried in Oak Catkins. God but I hate those things. Much worse than the Maple seeds

 

[8893]

Roma tomatoes for sauce, three different heirloom tomatoes, yellow cherry tomatoes, beefsteak tomatoes, basil, Italian parsley, jalapeños, Italian hot cherry peppers and fish peppers. Ring of marigolds around the outside to keep the deer away.

 

[Robertelamin]

I don’t even try to grow anything. Too many critters. But if I had a garden it would be buried in Oak Catkins. God but I hate those things. Much worse than the Maple seeds

I find catkins annoying as well but at least they don’t turn into trees. Maple seeds find their way into spots that make them impossible to remove once they get large enough.

 

[White Dwarf]

Just the basics. Tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplant, bell peppers and a banana pepper.

 

[Deepster]

Surprised at the amount of eggplants. I find the yield and space to be not worth the effort.

 

[UconnFanNVa]

Got some Roma, cherry and better not tomatoes. Got some habaneros and cayenne peppers and some cumcumbers. That's plenty for me weed and take care. Looking forward to jarring some pickles with peppers this year.

 

[TRest]

I threw a few heirloom tomatoes into the perennial bed because it gets all day sun where my old veggie patch was in the shade all morning. If it works out I might aggressively thin the perennial herd that took 25 years to establish.

 

[Walker11]

Surprised at the amount of eggplants. I find the yield and space to be not worth the effort.

You should probably be getting around 10 generic Italian eggplant from a healthy plant, right? (I usually go with Black Beauty) That is my experience. My problem is my leafs will get skeletonized by flea beetles and nothing seems to work.

 

[Robertelamin]

If it’s 10 then that isn’t too bad. I’ll be lucky to get 4 or 5 corn cobs from 15 plants and probably no watermelon, though I did grow a 17.5 pound one that @Mano can confirm.

 

[ClifSpliffy]

If it’s 10 then that isn’t too bad. I’ll be lucky to get 4 or 5 corn cobs from 15 plants and probably no watermelon, though I did grow a 17.5 pound one that @Mano can confirm.

watermelon? sugar babies are hassle free, except for the varmint part. surprises me that more people don't plant this variety. cantaloupe too. almost no work. except for the varmint part.

 

[UCSouth]

You should probably be getting around 10 generic Italian eggplant from a healthy plant, right? (I usually go with Black Beauty) That is my experience. My problem is my leafs will get skeletonized by flea beetles and nothing seems to work.

Not sure what your neighbor situation is, but if you don't really have too many you might want to try a few guinea fowl to alleviate the beetle issue. If you have neighbors.....they're a bad option.

 

[temery]

Deer.

 

[Phorcys]

I live in a very densely populated city, so my horticultural skills are limited.

But, from what I understand, it is best to rotate crops to maintain the fertility of the soil.



So, this year it is asphalt.

And, next year it will be concrete.

 

[Robertelamin]

watermelon? sugar babies are hassle free, except for the varmint part. surprises me that more people don't plant this variety. cantaloupe too. almost no work. except for the varmint part.

Congo’s bud. Go big or go home. I’m not growing some beta melons! I’ve grown cantaloupe before. The problem for me is that I find cantaloupe to be pretty meh.

 

[Devland]

If it’s 10 then that isn’t too bad. I’ll be lucky to get 4 or 5 corn cobs from 15 plants and probably no watermelon, though I did grow a 17.5 pound one that @Mano can confirm.

I find that if you have a relatively small patch of corn, you have to hand pollinate. The wind is only effective pollinating in big farm fields.

 

[Robertelamin]

I find that if you have a relatively small patch of corn, you have to hand pollinate. The wind is only effective pollinating in big farm fields.

I haven’t tried that. I give them a good shake to spread the pollen but I’ve never hand pollinated. I’ll try this year.

 

[sledog]

Had to eradicate thistle weeds. Their root system goes down 24" or so. Tried to dig out last year, but they came back. So hit them with Round-up being careful not to spray the dirt. They're gone, and I roto-tilled, but it's Memorial Day, and may be too late to plant this year. Given the hoopla over Roud-up lately, I also don't want to be gowing a 6th finger in each hand even thought Round-up says garden bed should be ok after 2-3 weeks. Then again, most comercial farmers spray the hell out of their fields with it.

 

[ClifSpliffy]

Had to eradicate thistle weeds. Their root system goes down 24" or so. Tried to dig out last year, but they came back. So hit them with Round-up being careful not to spray the dirt. They're gone, and I roto-tilled, but it's Memorial Day, and may be too late to plant this year. Given the hoopla over Roud-up lately, I also don't want to be gowing a 6th finger in each hand even thought Round-up says garden bed should be ok after 2-3 weeks. Then again, most comercial farmers spray the hell out of their fields with it.

definitely not too late to plant standard vegetables. do it. fresh july cukes, august tomatoes and september peppers will remind you why you did it.